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You're going to use words like rape and violate and then say I poked YOU with a stick? I am going to bow out of this conversation before I violate the BYC rules.

For someone who sounds like she wants to take the high road and be respectful of all, calling us rapists is probably not the way to go. And then implying that those of us who sell two-year-old hens are cheating people--that's beyond rude. If I tell people the hatch date of the birds (and I do)...

No one should ever have a white bulb on all night. Chickens need a dark period. In fact, their bodies are actually reacting to the shorter dark period, not the longer light period, when you add light. More than 18 hours of light daily will increase the risk of cannibalization and lower egg...

This depends a lot on your management scenario. Many of us do not keep chickens until the end of their natural life. You're going to get the same total number of eggs over a hen's life whether you light them or not--but you'll get far more of them in the first two/three years if you use lights...

Some university research-backed links for those of you interested in lighting for poultry. Very interesting reads. http://umaine.edu/publications/2227e/ http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~mdarre/poultrypages/light_inset.html

Research has proven that more than 18 hours of light actually decreases egg production.

Where are you and under what circumstances have you had chickens freeze to death? Or are you just speculating? BYC has members that keep chickens in Alaska at -50 F, and they do not freeze to death. There is a big difference between adding light to increase daylength and adding heat bulbs. I do...